77580: Ma'al Drakar the Dragon Tyrant (Picture Heavy)

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So, it took me 8 days of work, about 50 - 60 hours or so, but I finally finished my first Ma'al Drakar. Very happy with the results, Tia-Not is currently sitting on my entertainment center and terrifying my players. It was as much practice as it was anything else. I based it off this Deviantart color palette. I kept meaning to make an "in progress" thread, but I just didn't get around to it. Not sure if it'd be worth it now that it's done.

The base is an 11" diameter wooden base I picked up from Michael's. There's rocks from my driveway, clay, gravel, and crystals from the same craft store.

When I do my second one, if I stick with the crystals, I'll definitely splash some color into them. They're a little pale now, but there's no way I'd be able to get the work done on this one.

Not sure if I can mention it or not, but this one is something I'm currently selling on an auction site...

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Wow, cool stuff! Interesting approach with the pupil-less eyes. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but it is well executed. As for the rest... I know for sure, I like it a lot!

PS. Good luck with the auction!

Kang

I generally prefer my dragons and demons to have glowing orbs over regular eyes. In general, I feel it works better visually, and matches more with literature and media portrayals, but I can see how others might not appreciate it as much.

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So I'm DMing a group of D&D 5E where we've played the Tyranny of Dragons storyline for the last two years now. We're around session 80ish now, and my group is near the end, where I want them to encounter Tiamat herself. As I've used miniatures for all encounters so far, I need a Tiamat figue.

When I saw the amazing WIP and Show-Off threads from Sirithiliel last year, I knew I had found the "miniature" I needed. Thank you for the inspiration, Siri. The model is called "Lysander" and is produced by Toscano. It's made out of some kind of resin and is pretty fragile (especially the horns). Wasn't easy to track down the figue, but then I found it on Amazon for 65 Euros including shipping to Germany. I understand that there are versions of this figure that come unpainted. Mine was painted in a nice green/yellow tone. But of course, this is not befitting of Tiamat ;) My plan was to go a little step further than Siri and change the heads, too. My players know the D&D dragons pretty well after a two-year-long dragon themed campaign, and they should be able to identify the typical D&D dragon heads.

As of now, I am almost finished with the model. But if you like, I'll post the pictures of the process here.

Here we go:

Step 1: The figure out of the box

I couldn't get the whole figure on camera with my usual photo setup. Will change setup for later pictures

The model is about 29 cm high, has a wingspan of 38 cm and a base of about 18 cm. It's clearly not in a 28cm fantasy miniture scale like the Reaper miniatures (eyes are too big, base has mega huge tree under the dragon's claws), but it will do.

I finally have six fighting CAV armies - some more fight-y than others. Some have enough models with enough variety to meet diverse challenges, and some are just barely legal if you squint right. Case in point? Here's my newly painted Ritterlich army!

Notice a complete lack of infantry, aircraft, fighting vehicles, transports, and for that matter, primary squads.*

But recon and artillery? Got that *covered*!

Anyway, here's a glimpse of my boys in blue. They won't see much growth until next year when CAV KS II gets here, but they will see play because, hey, rhinos right?

* As-is, I could only build two legal attack squads, both of which revolve around a rhino and a cataphract with either a recon model or a fire support model to get it up to a full squad of 4. Truth be told, I'm honestly thinking I'll re-purpose some of these cougars as Cougar IIs - something between a Cougar and a Jaguar, just for the sake of variety.

A friend gave me this for Christmas 10+ years ago, and I have always been afraid to paint it, as I had the 'I'm not good enough now' syndrome....

Then seeing Siri's Tia-not, and then Buglips' thread on this beastie, (I mean her Dark Majesty) the 5 little voices have been saying do it, paint it, Ma'al Drakkar will be here in a year... (I need to look Good, in an evil sort of way, for that big guy!)

And since my air compressor died tonight, I thought maybe I could kill my Dremel tool to!

Going to do prep work tonight, so won't be anything exciting, but I snapped a few pics to show the components. I don't have Sir Forscale, so I brought in his bard, Astrid the Chronicler, to show you all their sheer size...
(What is this wench doing strolling around my parts!!)

(Ma'al is gonna be scary!)

Pics:

The Vrock I am working on to show the wing span:

This also to motivate me to work on it, so that I can have it ready for the end of the year....
DDS 2 is in the mail to....
Think I might be biting off more than I can get in my mouth, never mind chew...

Wish me luck! Gonna need it!
(If you don't get back to work, you'll need more than LUCK!)